- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 14:32:22 PDT
- To: bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu
- Cc: paulle@microsoft.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Paul Leach > One small step in this direction would be to allow full URLs in > requests to origin servers in HTTP 1.1. (In HTTP 1.0 and the current > HTTP 1.1 draft, they are only allowed in requests to proxies.) Balint Nagy Endre/Andrew: > Good idea, but requires a lot of discussion for 1.0-1.1 interoperatibility. I think we already had a lot of discussion on this point. I'm not sure there was 100% consensus, but I believe that the sense of the group is that HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 are interoperable, e.g., a HTTP/1.0 server should respond to a HTTP/1.1 request and a HTTP/1.1 server should respond to a HTTP/1.0 request. Adding a Host: field to HTTP 1.1 requests allows interoperability, but sending the full URL in the request doesn't. We *should* say that in HTTP 1.1, all servers should respond to the full URL, so that future versions of the protocol might eliminate "Host:". Clients could send the full URL to servers where it knew that the server was HTTP/1.1 (e.g., had talked to that server/port recently).
Received on Wednesday, 4 October 1995 14:35:42 UTC